Descriptive essay. Just about anything that could go wrong with an adoption system has gone wrong with the American Adoption System.

become profit, and the wellbeing of the children has become the least of the profiteers worries. Even the basic adoption fees have the ability to give couples the idea that they don’t have the ability to adopt in America, unforgivably encouraging many to go abroad for adoptions. The typical adoption in America is now ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. The number of American’s adopting overseas has more than doubled in the past decade to more than 18,000 per year. This wouldn’t be such a problem if there weren’t, on any given day, 118,000 children waiting to be adopted here in America’s foster care system. Since the American adoption system has found out that time is money, the system has also become extremely complex. Parents are actually advised to apply at least a year in advance. They take their time to find the perfect parents for the perfect child, but this match does not exist. The only reality in this search is the fact that it takes time, and once again in this business time is money. If the adoption system could put its greed behind the needs of the children on its priority list, more of the available children could be placed in permanent homes, which is the ultimate goal. Unfortunately though, money still reins as the most important factor. The more steps involved, the more fees that potential parents are hit with, while children sit in orphanages, waiting for the adoption entrepreneurs to practice their profit obsessed business.  This flawed system has allowed American children to age out of the foster care system never knowing the comfort and support of a family. Families struggle with a system that seems broken and wonder, if adoption is so good why does it have to be so hard? California facilitator, Tina Johnson, placed twins with one family for $6,000, then later removed the children and placed them I custody of a British couple for $12,000.  When couples hear of stories like these, and find out how much money they will spend and how little accountability they will receive in order to adopt in America, the idea of adoption abroad begins to sound like the best option. The more families that decide to adopt from countries such as China and Guatemala, the more children in America that are left without a chance of a permanent home. There is no excuse for the number of youth that America’s adoption system has denied a family.  When there are children in America to be adopted, families should not be forced to adopt abroad. If the American adoption system was less complicated, less people would have to go abroad to adopt, and therefore less American children would remain in the foster care system.